Darrell Weldon III was 17 when he was shot and killed at his home in the 9800 block of Newton Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, on the afternoon of March 21, 2023. He had been watching his younger siblings and other family members when a man came to the house looking for a cousin he mistakenly believed to be there. After Darrell denied the man entry, the visitor opened fire. Emergency services arrived about 2 p.m. and Darrell was taken to a nearby hospital, where he later died.

Family members remembered Darrell as protective of his siblings, full of laughter, and active in football and video games. He was a junior at De La Salle Education Center who hoped to attend business school and become an electrician. Kansas City homicide detectives opened an investigation, but no arrest or publicly identified suspect had been announced in the days and months after the shooting.

If anyone has information about the shooting that might help investigators, please contact the Kansas City Police Department.